Optimus Prime battling Blackout, Megatron and Starscream
Bumblebee
Autobots
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Trailer description
- Opens with Sam telling Bumblebee he’s not coming to college
– “Look at this place, I feel smarter already”, Sam’s parents at college
– Sexy panning shot of Megan Fox straddling a bike
– Sam has a ‘mental meltdown’ in the middle of his class (as reported from the Princeton filming), seeing symbols, marking them into the ground
– Sam meets Optimus in a cemetery (cemetary filming set report)
– More of Bumblebee and the Twins in the dessert, some of that GM promo footage too
– Finding the symbols on something ancient, presumably behind that painting
– Megatron returns! We see him rising from the depths of the ocean and rising up behind Megan Fox
– “Megatron wants what’s in my mind“
– “Fate rarely calls on us at a moment of our choosing“
– We see Sam and Mikaela jumping rooftops with Rampage behind them
– Bumblebee ducks a swinging arm from Demolisher or Rampage
– Explosions in a library
– Silver Saturn Astra (as seen at Princeton) flying through the air with presumably Shia falling out and Megan Fox calling after him
– Optimus Prime attacking the character with rotor blades on his back, possibly Blackout
– Prime flying through the air after Megatron attacks him
– Bricks floating in circles around one of the pyramids, F-16s fly past, Devastator climbs up the side of the pyramid (same angle on the pyramid as seen in the official shots)
– Jetfire stoops down
– Devastator crushes a vehicle before he starts sucking up sand with his giant vortex mouth
– We see a robot, possibly Mudflaps, being sucked towards the vortex
– Ratchet can be seen behind one of the tanks in the desert
The Transformers 2 official HD online release was meant to occur at 12:00pm PST today, it looks like this time has slightly slipped to 4:30pm PST — maybe to coincide with that Entertainment Tonight feature. ET have also provided a video interview with Shia, Michael Bay and Tyrese at the first showing of the new trailer. Videos included after the break Read the rest of this entry »
A grainy in-theater version has leaked early, given the quality of these things, this one is pretty watchable. Lots of new footage and a lot more of the storyline in this trailer. Including a shot of Devastator climbing up a pyramid.
Download the trailer
UPDATE: Changing video source to one that works, though sound is out of sync:
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Trailer description
- Opens with Sam telling Bumblebee he’s not coming to college
– “Look at this place, I feel smarter already”, Sam’s parents at college
– Sexy panning shot of Megan Fox straddling a bike
– Sam has a ‘mental meltdown’ in the middle of his class (as reported from the Princeton filming), seeing symbols, marking them into the ground
– Sam meets Optimus in a cemetery (cemetary filming set report)
– More of Bumblebee and the Twins in the dessert, some of that GM promo footage too
– Finding the symbols on something ancient, presumably behind that painting
– Megatron returns! We see him rising from the depths of the ocean and rising up behind Mega nFox
– “Megatron wants what’s in my mind“
– “Fate rarely calls on us at a moment of our choosing“
– We see Sam and Mikaela jumping rooftops
– Bumblebee ducks a swinging arm from Demolisher
– Explosions in a library
– Silver Saturn Astra (as seen at Princeton) flying through the air with presumably Shia falling out and Megan Fox calling after him
– Optimus Prime attacking the character with rotor blades on his back, possibly Blackout
– Prime flying through the air after Megatron attacks him
– Bricks floating in circles around one of the pyramids, F-16s fly past, Devastator climbs up the side of the pyramid (same angle on the pyramid as seen in the official shots)
– Jetfire stoops down
– Devastator crushes a vehicle before he starts sucking up sand with his giant vortex mouth
– We see a robot, possibly Mudflaps being sucked towards the vortex
Shortly after I posted the Chromia and Megatron video reviews Peaugh posted up three more constructicon reviews showcasing the Voyager class Mixmaster and Demolisher toys and Deluxe Rampage.
The feature, clearly strapped for footage as it shows the same scenes twice in under thirty seconds (and up to three times in two minutes), gives an overview of the sequel whilst giving Bay some time to explain how the robots have evolved. He also throws a dig at Cameron’s Avatar, suggesting that 3D is a gimmick.
Regular Transformers toy reviewer Peaugh is back with three more videos, this time for the Deluxe Chromia, Leader class Megatron and Scout class Dune Runner toys.
Whether Chromia combines with Arcee is still questionable, there are some extra unused parts included with Chromia which suggest the slight possibility.
UPDATE:Final Transformers 2 Trailer released in HD (30th April 2009)
See also our in depth analysis of the trailer with high quality screenshots of all the key scenes, robots and Megan Fox.
The footage from the Las Vegas ShoWest 2009 is now online for all to see, published to MichaelBay.com. As previously described, the footage opens with Bumblebee and Sam discussing his leaving for college and the already infamous crying with washer fluid, before jumping into a montage of robot awesomeness. Typically this massive news appears on the weekend I am out in the country without internet access.
We get to see Devastator, Jetfire, Wheels, Chromia, Megatron smashing Optimus Prime across a field, The Fallen, Skids, Mudflaps, Sideswipe, possibly Blackout, Scalpel, Bumblebee and more.
Watch the ShoWest Transformers 2 Trailer/Footage
Note in this first image the painting — back in December we reported on a possible Fallen scoop that looked to all extents and purposes to be a fake (see bottom of this post) — the picture matches the one in the screenshot.
Original Fallen scoop images:
Blackout or Springer
Blackout, the first active Decepticon in the first movie looks to now appear in Revenge of the Fallen, but the rotary blades are much smaller, some suggest this is instead Springer.
Megatron
Images courtesy of The Cinema Source, showing Megatron hammering Optimus Prime, sending him airborne and flying across a field.
Rampage
This one isn’t so clear but it appears to be Bumblebee and possibly Rampage dueling — judging by the flailing tracks.
MTV have released the next part of their ongoing Michael bay interview, this one sees the Transformers director talking about his favorite robots, calling The Fallen an ultimate bad boy and claiming that the Devastator special effects are ten-fold more complicated than anything Lucas’ company has ever done. I’m still not sold on the Skids/Mudflaps twins.
“The Fallen is the ultimate bad boy,” Bay explained of the mysterious evildoer glimpsed briefly in the trailer for the June 24 film, whose vengeful mission gives the film’s title its double meaning. “He goes way back in the Transformer world. He’s one of the first Transformers.”
“The twins are quite fun,” Bay said of the comedy-relief duo, remembering his inspiration for including them. “I just kept thinking, ‘What if we have two dumb Transformers that are young and dumb?’ … They are just irreverent, dumb Transformers.”
“[Devastator is] the most complicated model that George Lucas’ company has done in 30 years,” Bay marveled. “In all the 30 years of [Industrial Light and Magic] making movies, it’s the most complicated digital model — and it’s tenfold in terms of the most complicated. It’s taken a long time to do.
“There’s a lot of great new characters in this movie — some funny ones, some devious ones, there are some little teeny ones that are a little irreverent,” Bay said of a robot group that includes such newbies as the four-legged Ravage, sleek Sideswipe and others. “You know what is better in this movie? The acting of the robots. It’s just evolved from the last one, and in terms of the animation we are able to put these robots’ [emotions] in.”
Such acting innovations have also helped a big breakout robot from the original “Transformers” film, who Bay insisted remains his favorite Transformer of the group. “Bumblebee is great in this movie,” he promised.